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Claudia Godid sits on a bed frame and pushes the green headscarf over her face to protect herself from the omnipresent dust. She looks wearily towards the two flagpoles that mark the border between South Sudan and Sudan, a good 100 metres away. She has come to Joda border point from the Sudanese town of Rabak and originally lived in Khartoum. “It was bad, very, very bad,” Godid says of the start of Sudan’s bloody conflict a year ago. “It was no longer safe – the airstrikes, the shootings. Many women were raped.” She wipes away a tear as she recalls horrors and the constant feeling of insecurit…

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